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Limited time only — our #ebook edition of Katherine Anne Porter's landmark collection PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER is on #sale for only $1.99. Click on “Buy the eBook” and choose your vendor: https://www.loa.org/books/468-pale-horse-pale-rider-three-short-novels-loa-ebook-classic https://t.co/mGWxB4bT3O

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Known as “the father of American psychology,” William James was born today in 1842. His eclectic writings on religion, philosophy, and metaphysics are marked by a devotion to literary excellence he shared with his brother, the novelist Henry James. https://t.co/jkBOxJpcs1 https://t.co/YqbaRLtNtb

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Theodore Dreiser, author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, died #OTD in 1945. “He was the first American novelist to invest the big city with such a hungry, avid sense of power,” wrote Alfred Kazin in 1984. https://t.co/jCrKqfr5rD

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This February, @92ndStreetY is holding an online course on Octavia E. Butler’s last novel, Fledgling, with @NisiShawl, award-winning author and co-editor of LOA’s recent Butler edition. You can check out details and register here: https://t.co/iMI4CS0YrX

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Out TODAY in trade paper and eBook: Our authoritative new text of Hemingway's THE SUN ALSO RISES, edited by @DrTroggie, corrects errors and restores changes made to the original punctuation—including to the novel’s famous last line: https://www.loa.org/books/704-the-sun-also-rises-paperback https://t.co/zwPZlUggTJ

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Today in 1853, the abolitionist and writer Solomon Northup—who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana—regained his freedom. That the same year, he wrote and published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (it's excerpted in this LOA volume: https://t.co/E1qxVYsFny). https://t.co/y9g2IuKzlp

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Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was born #OTD 150 years ago. Visit our #LiftEveryVoice website for a bio, poems, readings by @Deardarkness and @ProfessorEA, and more on the writer whose influence on the Black poetic tradition echoes throughout the canon. https://t.co/RYBjJtrE7k https://t.co/966ZnbjZuO

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Discover the work that guided JFK’s decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis in our Barbara W. Tuchman edition, collecting the Pulitzer-winning “The Guns of August” and its follow-up “The Proud Tower”, back in stock now! https://t.co/Zal9R2YOh0 https://t.co/jeiPyuxws3

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Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War and served as the 18th president, then wrote about his life as a soldier with striking clarity in his widely acclaimed “Personal Memoirs.” He was born #OTD in 1822. https://t.co/eesTGqfAU6 https://t.co/9DgG7y9viM

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#OTD John Williams was born 100 years ago today, on Aug. 29, 1922. Edited by @DAMendelsohnNYC, our COLLECTED NOVELS includes the three very different works that are now recognized as contemporary classics: BUTCHER'S CROSSING, STONER, and AUGUSTUS. [1/2] https://t.co/miRLPclly3 https://t.co/h3PY6B6sBb